Past: corporate marketer.
Present: business owner, volleyballer and part-time writer.
Future: best-selling novelist :)..
In business - marketing and brands In sport - volleyball and darts (!) In life - writing my first novel, and my family
Past: Thomas Chatterton, John Milton, Elizabeth Bathory, Samuel Johnson
Present: Anne Rice, Cristina Scabbia, Amy Lee...
Anything that fires my imagination.
Too many to list but those I'd watch over and over include: Gallipoli Gattaca Gothic From Dusk til Dawn Bram Stoker's Dracula The Man Who Fell to Earth.
24. There are too many channels now and it's all too fragmented - easy to miss the good stuff amongst the drivel.
Currently reading and researching 18th century history for my own novel. Otherwise, mostly horror fiction and some sci-fi. Also like WW1 poets. Biggest influences on my own writing are: Stephen King, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, John Milton (Paradise Lost), Thomas Hardy (Tess). Other favourites include Orson Scott-Card (Ender series), Dan Simmons (Hyperion series) and Tolkien, of course.
selfless people who create joy and comfort for others
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - SURVEY
NAME Pete
BIRTHDAY 25th February
BIRTH PLACE Portsmouth, England
CURRENT LOCATION Bristol, England
EYE COLOR brown
HAIR COLOR brown with grey
HEIGHT 6ft 1in
LEFT OR RIGHT HANDED righty
YOUR HERITAGE English
FAVORITE SHOES loafers
FAVORITE COLOR deep red
YOUR WEAKNESS chocolate
YOUR FEARS inability to react to crisis; loss of loved ones
FAVORITE MEAL Thai or Sunday Roast
FAVORITE DRINK Pimms with lemonade and strawberries
GOAL THIS YEAR writing: complete the first 50% of my novel
GOAL NEXT 5-10 YEARS excel at writing compelling, publishable fiction
FIRST THOUGHTS UPON WAKING oh no, not yet ...
LAST THOUGHTS BEFORE SLEEP it cannot possibly be that late
MOST MISSED MEMORY my mum
MOST TREASURED POSSESSION my stuffed giraffe, Gerald
DO YOU SMOKE no
DO YOU DRINK yes
ARE YOU A HEALTH FREAK no
ARE YOU RELIGIOUS spiritually yes, logistically no
OCCUPATION marketing consultant
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN U GROW UP a famous writer
NUMBER OF PIERCINGS 1
NUMBER OF TATTOOS 0
DO YOU WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE yes, as a very mature student, to study history
DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS I did when they were alive
DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR SIBLINGS yes
ANY PETS not any more :(
FAVORITE KIND OF MUSIC dark dramatic rock especially female-fronted metal and goth
FAVORITE TYPE OF LITERATURE most classic English lit and also horror genre
EVER SKINNY DIPPED yep
EVER SWIM IN THE OCEAN yep
GREATEST WISH / PRAYER that everyone respect everybody else - without exception
DO YOU SING only in the shower, though I was a Head Chorister in my teens
DO YOU PLAY AN INSTRUMENT guitar, badly
COUNTRY YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT USA
FAVORITE HOBBY(IES) writing
DO YOU DRAW OR PAINT no, only with words
DO YOU COOK baked beans
HOW MANY COUNTRIES HAVE YOU BEEN TO not as many as I would like
PREFERENCE IN OTHERS...
FAVORITE EYE COLOR brown or blue or green or hazel
FAVORITE HAIR COLOR black, blonde, brown, red, green, combo of all
LONG OR SHORT HAIR either
MOST ATTRACTIVE TRAIT(S) compassion, humour, imagination
HEIGHT yes
WEIGHT yes
KIDS OR NO KIDS kids
HAVE YOU...
EVER BEEN IN LOVE yes
EVER WRITTEN A SONG FOR SOMEONE no
EVER DANCED ON A MOUNTAIN no
EVER SWAM IN THE MOONLIGHT yes
ANY REGRETS never seeing Pink Floyd performing The Wall
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